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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <724QRPXI.ZO3UOJB4.E6PLHZF2@W5UAS6EM.OB3W2AHJ.JYKECFA3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 4cfebc41-0ee1-460f-bf64-cdca8abce216 X-Archives-Hash: c4c80e5ed1e938835a7a0f0fd80dea5b Jack wrote: > On 2021.10.05 15:32, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of >> Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement >> >> Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev >> to: sys-fs/udev >> >> is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev >> emerge sys-fs/udev > Have you read the news item?  It's not quite that literal about what > to do, but does imply that should work.  However, on 15 Sep there was > a post on the gentoo-dev list with a link to > https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev (see README.md) which says that > there is a new team taking up maintenance of eudev, so it is not > abandoned, and so it is not clear whether eudev will actually be > dropped or not. > > When I switched from udev to eudev, it was as simple as uninstalling udev and installing eudev.  I'd think as you do the reverse would work now as well but as you point out, it may not.  I'd recommend going to a console to do this and logging out of any GUIs as well.  Of course restarting udev afterwards as well.  I also saw the post about new maintainers.  I'm hopeful that it will keep being maintained even tho it can be a headache for devs at times.  Thing is, I've read a lot of distros use eudev and avoid the systemd version as much as possible, even tho eudev still has the same code from my understanding.  Still, I'd rather stick with what works for me.  Maybe we will know pretty soon what the status of this will be.  Dale :-)  :-)